Sunday, February 21, 2010

Press Snippets: Tarkan Press Scan

As the Turkish press begin to publishtheir reports on Tarkan's PETA ad, in the English language Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review there is an article noting the irony of Turkish journalists falling foul of something they once criticised Tarkan of doing.

"It was 1994 when Turkish pop star Tarkan uttered the words "I have to pee" on live TV and was condemned by almost all members of the media for making such a comment on the air.

"Sixteen years later, such "private" or "personal" comments have become the "professional" expressions of Turkish journalists and columnists since the local media met Twitter, an online social-networking platform that lets users send brief text messages of up to 140 characters to a list of followers."